On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:48:21AM -0500, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
What is gained by having this suffix?
all my reasons are already mentioned here, so i just would like to sum up them: 1) protecting users from installing x86_64 packages on i686, or so 2) being able to use a common cache for different architectures 3) regarding the "it's not necessary, pacman can extract that info from .PKGINFO": the situation is the same with pkgver/pkgrel, too. why do we have them in the package name? i think because of 1) and 2) (oh and a 4) is about prodecting developers to mess up the packages, but the no1 is the user so this should not be a reason) udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org